Embassy Bombing

The American Embassy in Ecuador has been blown up by a groups of terrorists. Sarah and Brian attend to the injured while CIA agent George investigates the incident. Who blew up the Embassy and why did they do it? Read is rivetting story to find out. this story was brought to you by the letter E

Submitted:Feb 20, 2011
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Sarah Mathewson was at the entrance of the indoor
equestrian arena on her horse, Franklin. She and her boyfriend,
Brian Stewart, were at De Centre De Equestria De Eugenie in the
town of Eugenie, Ecuador. She was waiting for her turn on the
jumps. They were having a competition.

"First up, Philipa Panadeni" said the announcer on the
megaphone.

Panadeni entered the arena and galloped towards the
first jump which was on the left side of the arena. She jumped
over three jumps in a row, knocked over one of the poles on the
second jump. She galloped around to the fourth jump on the other
side of the arena, jumped over it and rode diagonally to the
first jump. She jumped over it, turned around and jumped the
fifth jump in the middle of the arena and the sixth jump. Then
turned and jumped the last too jumps.

"Perfect score, Philipa" said the judge "As always. A
perfect score".

"Next up, Michelle Fernado".

"She's a really good jumper" said Sarah. Sarah had
brown hair that was tied in a pony tail and was dressed in her
riding gear. She had a slim body with a slim face, pale skin, and
an English accent.

Michelle accelerated to the first jump, knocked over
the top bar and jumped the second jump. She cleared the third
jump though. The assistants ran onto the arena and placed the
pole back on the first jump. Michelle circled to the fourth jump,
cleared it and rode back to the first jump. She knocked the post
off again. She circled and knocked off the fifth jump and cleared
the sixth. She rode round in a tight circle. Cleared the seventh
jump and knocked off the last jump. She slowed down as she
appraoched the entrance and hopped off.

"That was appalling," said the judge "you should lift
his legs higher. Put some more ommff in it. You'll never clear
the jumps if you don't try".

"Next up, Sarah Mathewson".

"Wish me luck" said Sarah.

Brian waved her good luck as he leaned on the fence
next to the gate. He was a tall guy from Equatorial Guinea in
Africa. He had on a sky blue buttoned short sleeve shirt, green
shorts and sneakers.

Sarah sped towards the first jump and jumped the first
three jumps in a row. She rode around to the fourth jump. Cleared
it and rode back to the first. She jumped the first, turned
around and jumped the next two jumps, knocking over the fifth.
She turned around and cleared the last two jumps. The crowd
cheered and Brian cheered too. Sarah slowed down as she
approached the entrance. She jumped off and took off her
helmet.

"That was a good round" said Derick Broderick, the
chief judge "Splendid indeed".

Derick was Ethiopian. Brian and Sarah hugged for a
while.

"That was a good effort," said Brian "A marvellous
round. You are so good at it".

"Yes, I know" replied Sarah. Sarah briefly kissed
Brian on the lips and smiled at him. "I love you. You're hot.
Come on. Let's head back to the stables".

Sarah and Brian left the arena, Sarah leading her
horse. There was concrete between the indoor arena and the dark
brown wooden stables with the light green corrugated roof. To the
right was an outdoor arena where some young riders in their teens
were practicing their dressage. To the left was the Eugenie
Estuary.

"Look at the estuary, would you" said Sarah as they
stepped towards the sea.

"It is kind of romantic," said Brian "Look, an
eagle".

The eagle soured above the water, squawking at the
surrounding land scape. On the other side of the estuary were
some hills covered in tropical rainforest. The water was blue and
as they got closer to the water Brian could see the bottom, the
water was so clear. There was rock and sand on the bottom.

"Look, some little fishes" said Sarah.

"And a crab".

They both smiled and Brian placed his left arm around
her waist. He was so happy to be with her. She lightened up his
world.

"Come on. Let's take the horse back. Then we can go
for a swim" said Sarah.

"What's going on there?" asked Brian, looking at the
American Embassy across the street.

"Hmmm, don't know" replied Sarah "Carrying some empty
bags. Look, that woman works for the embassy". Indeed she did.
They were carrying empty bags and card board boxes into a black
SUV. "They're up to something". They placed the cardboard boxes
in the recycling bin next to the entrance.

"Maybe they're renovating?"

"I don't know. Looks highly suspicious don't you
think. Come. We'll report them to the police once we've taken
Franklin into the stables".

They led the horse into the stables and put him into
one of the pens. Sarah took off the saddle and handed it over to
Brian who placed it outside the stable. Then she took off the
bridle.

KABLAM!!!!

Franklin and the other horses in the stables reared
up and whinnied in fright. Brian's heart was racing. Franklin
whinnied and reared up on his hind legs. The other riders went
and attended to their frightened horses.

"Woooh boy," said Sarah in a calming tone "Easy boy.
Nothing to be scared about. That's a boy". Franklin calmed down a
bit, stamped his front left foot. "Easy boy. Good boy". Sarah
patted Franklin on the neck. Brian saw the other riders calming
down their horses. "Brian. Go see where that explosion is would
you".

"OK" said Brian as he ran out of the stables and
towards the alleyway between the outdoor arena and administration
block.

"Nothing to be afriad off" said Sarah soothingly to
Franklin "Everything will be alright. It's all right" she said in
a quite voice.

"Sarah, you better come and look".

"OK". She turned to Franklin and said "Just don't be
scared, ok".

She left Franklin in the stable. Then ran out of the
stables and into the alleyway where Brian was pointing towards
the American Embassy. The Embassy had been blown up as the
American Embassy was on fire and debris had been scattered
everywhere. Some of the debris had been blown into the equestrian
centre. The smoke rising from the orange flames.

"Brian, call the emergency number" yelled
Sarah.

Brian complied. He dialled the emergency number on his
cell phone.

"Hello, we have an emergency. The American Embassy has
been blown up. I'm at De Centre De Equistria De Eugenie".

The operator hung up and Brian ran over to Sarah who
was attending to an injured woman laying on the ground. The
dressage instructor had captured the rider's horse and was
leading it out of the arena. Spectators had come to have a look.
Sarah is one of the emergency service workers that had been
recruited from England by the Ecuadorian government.

"She was practicing her dressage," explained the young
woman's mother "When the bomb went off and scared the horse. The
horse reared up on its hind legs and she fell off".

"How are you feeling?" asked Sarah.

"It hurts," replied the young woman "In the
back".

Some ambulances finally arrived on the scene with
their sirens blaring. Sarah prodded the young woman and asked her
about the symptoms as the paramedics got out their stretchers and
rushed over to them. One of the paramedics asked Sarah what
happened and she explained the incident. They know her from
emergency services.

"Her spine has been damaged and her pelvis has
cracked. She can't walk".

The treasurer of the Equestrian Centre walked briskly
towards the paramedics.

"Sarah, we have a situation here".

Sarah and Brian followed the treasuser into the admin
building and into the lounge room where it appeared that a plank
had smashed through the window and impaled the secretary of the
equestrian centre. Outside, the fire brigade had arrived and
started to put out the fire at the embassy. What appeared to be a
CIA agent looked at the patient with a baffled look on his face.
Two Ecuadorian detectives were with him. The CIA agent introduced
himself and the two detectives to Sarah and Brian.

The CIA agent was George Henderson and he came over by
helicopter as soon as he heard about the explosion. The two
detectives were Constable Donald Amongo who headed the
investigation and sergeant Tommy Delmegro. Two paramedics
arrived.

"Holy shit" cried one of the paramedics.

"Yes. Shit indeed" said George "How are we going to
get the plank out of him?"

"Don't pull it out" said the paramedic.

"He's right" said Sarah "You know Brian
Stuart".

"Yeah. I met him" said the paramedic "You're an
engineer, aren't you"

"Really?" said George. Brian nodded.

"Do you think you could cut off a piece of the plank
so that … we could move him, Brian?" asked Donald.

"Yeah, I could. Derick, pass me the hand saw, would
you?"

Derick dissappeared into the work shop and came back
with the hand saw. It took a few minutes for Brian to saw through
the plank but he cut the piece off. The paramedics wrapped a
piece of cloth around the wound to stop the bleeding and took the
patient away on the stretcher.

When they got outside they saw the paramedics that
were attending to a small child, about 6. The child was crying
his eyes out. George asked what had happened. A piece of concrete
had struck the child in the chest and cracked a few ribs. This
got Brian's blood boiling, Sarah was furious, and George felt
sick to the stomach. WHO WOULD BOMB THE EMBASSY? Why would anyone
do this?

Brian looked across the street at the burning
wreckage. Where the fire had been put out, paramedics and fire
fighters searched through the rubble for survivors. It disgusted
him. His heart went into his throat.

"Did you see anything suspicious?" asked
George.

"Yes. Come to think of it" replied Sarah "Me and Brian
saw a woman and two men enter the black van with bags and card
board boxes".

"Yes" said the treasurer. Brian walked over to them to
hear the conversation. "I saw them drive off down the street
shortly after the explosion. It was a big SUV too. Two boys. And
the girl that worked in the embassy".

"George, you better come quick" yelled a
paramedic.

They ran over to where the paramedics were attending
to a middleaged man.

"Shortly before the explosion went off. By the time
the guard told me, it was too late. The bomb just
exploded".

"Who was your secretary, Bob?"

Bob took a deep breath. He was weezing.

"Tracy Heart".

Bob's eyes glazed over and his breathing ceased.
George felt sick to the stomach.

"What is it, George?" asked Brian.

"I know her. She's part of an environmental terrorist
organisation called Guardians of Earth".

"I've heard about them. They blow up labs, factories
and dairy farms" said Sarah.

"Yes. That's them. Have you got the video footage of
them?"

"Yes, officer" said Derick "I'll take you over to the
CCTV Screen".

They followed Derick into the administration building
and into the security room where there were CCTV screens and the
computer drives for the CCTV system. George rewinded the footage
to the time just before the explosion, about an hour
before.

"That's the van!" cried Derick "That's the van that
drove away in a hurry after the explosion".

"Yes," said Sarah "I saw them placing empty bags into
the van and placing cardboard boxes in the recycling bin".

That was what they were doing in the video footage.
They took the full bags and boxes into the American Embassy and
came out with empty bags and boxes.

"Stop right there" said George "That is Tracy Heart
coming out of the Embassy with the two men. That on her right is
Mathew Garrison. He has a chemistry degree in Idaho and is a bomb
expert. That on her right is Nick Watson. He has a degree in
electrical engineering. They're both members of the Guardians of
Earth".

"They seem to carrying steel pipes, wires, clocks, and
various chemicals into the Embassy," said Donald "The materials
for building a bomb so to speak".

"I would have thought that the security guards would
be alarmed by that" said Tommy "What idoits".

"We'll have to report this to Washington," said George
"Donald, could you contact coms and ask them for the address of
the three bandits".

Donald complied and he talked to coms through his RT
asking them for their address. It took a while for coms to get
back to him as they had to look up the address on the computer.
Eventually coms got back to him and Donald wrote down the
address, repeating the address back to coms to make sure he got
it right.

"Right," said Donald "Here is the address. It's in a
street on the other side of town next to the industrial
section".

"Right. Let's go," said George "Tom, get a search
warrant and arrest warrant ready. We're going to have a raid.
Prepare the armed police squad".

* * *

Later that afternoon the Ecuadorian Armed Defenders
Squad and the CIA came to 143 De Oro Street, next to the
industrial section. George went and knocked on the door, saying
"CIA. Come out with your hands up".

They heard talking inside, but it went quite and they
didn't answer the doors. So George kicked down the door and they
stormed into the flat with their arms drawn.

"Hand's behind your backs" shouted George in an
authoritative tone as they pointed their guns at the terrorists.
"On the ground. NOW!"

They complied and the cops handcuffed the three
terrorists and took them away in a paddy wagon. The CIA searched
their flat and found evidence of bomb making including materials
for making a bomb such as wires, pipes, timers, cell phones and
various chemicals. They were making lead azide which is a highly
unstable compound and TNT. They found diagrams of bombs and
improvised explosive devises or IEDs for short. They found a plan
for blowing up the American Embassy including where to plant the
bombs and which ones to plant. They grabbed all the evidence and
placed it inside the police forensics van.

* * *

When they got them to the central police station
George interrogated them as to why they blew up the
embassy.

"The American's are polluting the environment, man,"
replied Tracy "We came to a village not far from here. Deep in
the tropical jungle. Mathew saw evidence of an American company
illegally dumping toxic waste into the river. Two men from
Maximus were dumping waste into the river. Making all the
villagers sick. Plants were dying, animals were dying, people
were getting sick. It was aweful. Their hair was falling out.
They had lumps growing all over their skin".

"Why didn't you go to the authorities?"

"Because Americans are always destroying the
environment," said Mathew, who had an English accent "You guy's
don't care about the environment. Everyday American's are
destroying rainforests, polluting rivers".

"We are trying everything to protect the environment!"
yelled George "We're going to investigate it. The incident. But
don't think you're off the hook. No. You are going to be
extradited to the United States and you are going to face the
death sentence for murdering innocent people, because of the
greed of one company!"

George left the room and told the police officers to
take them to their cells.

* * *

Next day they investigated the Maximus factory in the
middle of the jungle and found that, yes, they were illegally
dumping toxic waste into the river, making everybody sick and
killing off plants and animals. The river was heavily polluted
making it unsafe to drink and they had to evacuate the entire
village until they could get the river clean and safe to
drink.

The president and vice president of Maximus were
arrested for the illegal dumping of waste and for failing to
clean up their toxic waste. They were deported to Florida and New
York, respectively, being sentenced to jail for 20 years each.
They won't be out until 2030.

The villagers were compensated for 200,000 pesos for
their health and 200,000 for their emotional trauma. They were
shifted to their new homes in Eugene City and offered new jobs
with on the job training, paid for by the Ecuadorian
Government.

The three terrorists were extradited back to the
states and were sentenced to death by lethal injection. They are
due to be executed on 17th November 2014,
28th December 2014 and 6th January
2015.

They started clearing the scene of the explosion a
week later so that they could rebuild the American Embassy.
Meanwhile a temporary embassy has been based at the Equestrian
Centre with the permision of Derick.

Sarah, Brian, George, and Derick looked out at the
Eugenie Estuary with the new American ambassador, smiling as the
eagle flew above the sea, squawking.